Re: Strange bug while subclassing Gtk2::Box

[Jaap Karssenberg <j g karssenberg student utwente nl>]

Jaap Karssenberg wrote  on 10/31/2005 02:04 PM:
> muppet wrote  on 10/30/2005 11:06 PM:
> > I instrumented your code with some calls to  
> > Glib::Object::signal_add_emission_hook() (from Glib 1.10x), ran the  
> > code in both sandboxes, and compared the output.  For some reason,  
> > the older gtk+ (which doesn't show the buttons) does not propagate  
> > expose events to the HBox's children, but gtk+ 2.8 does.
>
> I tried calling Gtk2::Container::propagate_expose() on the expose_event 
> for my box class but that didn't help. I'll try more of these kind of 
> things at random :(

Ok, the problem is not that propagate_expose doesn't work, the problem 
is that my box object doesn't get expose events in the first place. I 
tried adding "expose_mask" for my box object but that didn't help. Any 
other suggestions on what should be turned on/off in order to get expose 
events ?

-- Jaap <pardus cpan org>